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enMy massive quantitative study on free software gets an updatehttp://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/quantitative_study_on_free_software_gets_an_update
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>My paper “Why OSS/FS? Look at the Numbers!” is a massive collection of quantitative studies on free software, with the goal to “show that you should consider using OSS/FS when acquiring software”. It has a large set of different studies grouped into the categories market share, reliability, performance, scalability, security, and total cost of ownership.</p>
<p>If you need evidence, not anecdotes, it’s been the place to go. But it was last updated in 2005, so the latest information hasn’t been included. Finally, a brand-new 2007 edition is available, with lots of additions.</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-category field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Category:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/opinions">Opinions</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Tagging:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/79">free software</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/taxonomy/term/105">advocacy</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/872">quantitative</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/taxonomy/term/873">studies</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/874">research</a></div></div></div>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:01:09 +0000David A Wheeler2197 at http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.comhttp://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/quantitative_study_on_free_software_gets_an_update#comments